Well, here's another chapter of LF, LS! I really need reviews, and with all the time I put into this story, especially since my computer got all weird and made me lose my original written chapter 3. I want to know if you guys are enjoying my story or not. So, please review my chapter. Especially since I'm failing English, I would like to know if writing is worth my plummeting grades. Ok well enough blathering, on with the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, but the OCs are mine!

Chapter 3: the transformation

After checking the lab and making sure their kids knew to stay away from it, Sam and Danny left to meet their friends at the Nasty Burger. Soon after they left, Lilith left to the mall and Clare and TJ came over and Clare was trying to convince Danny to get his ghost powers.

"Come on Danny, you have to do it now!"

"No Clare, I don't think we should do this anymore!"

Clare rolled her eyes, and looked TJ to see if he wanted to help her convince him, but he looked away as soon as her eyes met his. Clare sighed; she really was trying to convince him without using her powers, but he was making it really difficult to do so. Then she finally gave up and her eyes began to glow with her powers, and so did Danny's. TJ didn't see this since her was still looking down, though he looked at Danny when he began to speak again.

"Ok, maybe I should do this. I bet it would be really cool to have ghost powers." Clare smiled and grabbed Danny's and TJ's arms and dragged them towards the lab. Once they got there, Danny reached for the door handle, but he frowned as he discovered that the door was locked. He then recalled that his parents had told his sisters and him to stay away from the lab. "The door is locked." Clare frowned and said, "Are you sure." Then she moved past Danny and tried to open the door, only to confirm her friend's words. She sighed as she tried to think of a way to open the door. She could just pick the lock, but if they were to get caught by Danielle, she would surely tell her father, and she could not let that happen. The simplest way to get past the door was to turn it intangible, but that would mean letting Danny and TJ know she was a ghost. But, her father did say do whatever it takes to turn Danny half ghost. "No problem." Clare then turned the door intangible, and ignored the gasps coming from Danny and TJ. Then Clare pushed Danny into the lab before either of them could question her. She shoved a white jumpsuit into his arms, and walked over to the controls. Danny began to put the jumpsuit on as TJ slowly began to walk towards him. "Hey man, is it just me, or are you thinkin she's a ghost too?" Danny zipped up the jumpsuit and looked at TJ before answering, "Nope, she's definitely a ghost, dude." Clare walked up to them and removed the sticker of Jack Fenton on Danny's chest. "There, you ready?" Danny sighed and glanced at the portal. He looked back at Clare and answered confidently, "Yeah, I'm ready." Then, Danny walked into the portal and looked for the on button. Upon finding it, he hesitated to press it. He took a deep breath and placed his hand on the button.

He pressed it.

His agonizing screams made Clare and TJ want to run in and help him, but they knew they couldn't. Then they heard Danielle banging at the door screaming to let her in. Clare put the ghost shield up so she couldn't phase through. Soon Danny's screams went down to small whimpers as he crawled out of the portal. Clare ran up to him and told him "Danny listen to me, you have to change back to your human form." Danny looked at her and said, "I-I don't know how." Clare tried to keep calm and think of a way to change Danny back. She really couldn't blame him; her father said it was extremely difficult to control your ghost powers when humans become half ghosts. Wait! Her ghost powers, she could use her controlling powers to turn him human again.

"Ugh I'm calling Dad!"

Clare gasped and her eyes instantly began to glow red. Then, the twin halos appeared around Danny's waist and turned him human again. Clare quickly ran to the portal's controls and shut the portal down again. She then turned off the ghost shield and unlocked the door. Danielle flew in and looked around, and other than the fact that Danny seemed to be extremely tired, everything seemed normal. "What are you guys doing in here? My dad said no one is allowed down here!" Clare gave her an angry look before her eyes glowed red and she said, "Well you're not going to tell your dad we were down here." Danielle's green eyes became red and she said "I am not going to tell my father." Clare smiled and said, "Good, now please step aside." Danielle moved and Clare pulled the boys upstairs to Danny's room. She closed the door behind them and sighed.

"Ok, now that was just too close." She said with a relieved smile on her face. She frowned when she saw that Danny still looked like he was in pain. "Danny, are you alright?" Danny nodded and looked at his friends with an emotionless expression. "I-I can't believe I'm not all human anymore." Clare looked at him with sympathy in her eyes. She smiled and hugged him. "It's alright Danny. Now you have amazing powers." Danny smiled and nodded in agreement. "And speaking of powers, I'd like to know where you got yours." TJ told Clare with a raised eyebrow. Clare smiled and said, "Well I can't tell you how I got them, but I can show you my ghost form." Then, two twin halos appeared around her waist and she turned into her ghost form. Danny and TJ gasped. Clare then decided to show Danny how to use his ghost powers. "TJ can you go home, I would like to show Danny to control his powers a little." TJ looked at Danny and nodded. He then gestured to Danny to follow him. Once they were both outside Danny's room TJ told Danny, "Dude don't try anything, you know I like her." Danny glanced at his door and responded, "Don't worry, I won't." Danny then walked into his room and shut the door. By now, the sun was beginning to set. That was surprising considering it had not taken long to do what they did in the lab. But it made sense because his parents left at 9:00 a.m. and Clare and TJ got to his house at 4:00 p.m. and it had taken Clare about an hour to reassure him that going in the portal was a good idea. And Clare also had to do some things to the portal's controls and then when he got his powers, and the whole thing with Danielle. It was probably 6 o'clock already. "Danny, wanna go flying for a little while?" Clare asked in a flirty voice. Danny just smiled and turned into his ghost form. He followed after Clare who had already flown outside.

"Come on Danny, catch up!" Clare said as she flew away from Fenton Works. Danny quickly caught up with her and asked her, "Wow, how do I know how to do this?" Clare laughed and told him, "You just do Danny, it's like instinct." They landed on the roof of the huge clock tower and sat down. They stared at the sun as it began to disappear. And just as the last rays of it disappeared, Clare looked at Danny and blushed. Danny noticed this and turned to face her to ask her what was wrong. But before he could ask Clare spoke up. "Um Danny, can I ask you something?" Danny nodded. "Yeah Clare, go ahead." And faster than he could react, Clare's lips were on his. As much as he wanted to pull away, his heart wouldn't let him. After a few more seconds they pulled away and Danny chuckled. "How was that asking me something?" Clare smiled and said, "That's my way of asking if you liked me." Danny smiled, but it went away when he recalled his best friend's words to him.

"Dude don't try anything, you know I like her."

He sighed and looked at Clare sadly. "Clare, I like you a lot, but I can't do this to TJ. I don't know if you caught his subtlety, but TJ really likes you." Clare giggled and shook her head."Of course I noticed! But I like you." Clare put her arms around Danny. Danny sighed and hugged her back. They held each other a little longer, then let go. They stared into the other's eyes until Danny broke the silence.

"Clare, I like you a lot, but I don't want to feel like I'm betraying TJ. I could never do that to him!" Clare looked disbelievingly at him.

"Danny, if he's really your best friend then he should want what's best for you! He should want to see you happy!" Clare sighed angrily before floating off the rooftop. "Look Danny, if you don't want to tell him you like me, then I will!" Danny gasped and grabbed her wrist before she could fly away. "No! Please don't tell him. He'll be pissed off at me if you do! He's in love with you!" Clare sighed before phasing out of his hold. "Fine, I won't tell him, but you are. You're his best friend, he'll understand." Danny sighed before saying, "Clare-""No Danny, just talk to him, I'm sure he'll understand. Now come on, let's get you home." She grabbed his hand and they flew off towards Fenton Works.

Once Danny and Sam got to Nasty Burger, they immediately spotted Valerie, Tucker, and Jazz and her husband.

"Hey guys!" Valerie, Tucker, and Jazz immediately smiled. Alex, Jazz's husband, stood up and shook Danny's hand. "Hey Danny, how've you been?" Danny smiled and shook Alex's hand as he responded, "Hey Alex, I've been great! Ghost trouble's been down a lot so it's been easy for me to train Danielle and work at Axiom Labs." Jazz smiled and looked around. "Danny, where's Danni?" Danny faced his sister and shrugged. "She said she would be a little late because she was bringing Edward along. She also said she had big news." At that moment, Danny's ghost sense went off and Danni and Edward phased through the roof. "Why don't you just walk in through the door Danni?" Danni giggled and smiled before responding, "Well, I guess I'm just too used to using my powers, which isn't strange considering I live in the ghost zone." Sam rolled her eyes and shook her head. "Hey, we offered you a house to live in, but you said no." Danni just shook her head and sighed. "I love being in the ghost zone, I'm closer to Edward that way." Danny smiled and looked at his watch. "Oh, it's 10:00 already, come on we should get going to Lake Eerie." Everyone agreed and they headed to Tucker's van.

About an hour and a half later, they all arrived to the lake. Sam and Danny set up a table so they could sit down and eat. They couldn't take Tucker's constant complaining. They sat down and started to eat. "Wow Sam! You really fixed this place up!" Jazz complimented as she looked around the campsite. "Thanks. I thought that kids should enjoy coming here instead of being grossed out by this place.

" There were now colorful plants and the camp was rebuilt and repainted. The lake was cleaned and the canoes were fixed. Everything looked more colorful and bright. Danny looked around as well and then glanced at his watch. "She fixed everything but the waterfall, it's already perfect."

Danielle smiled and nodded before looking at Edward who seemed to silently agree with her on something. "Guys?" Jazz and Danielle simultaneously said. They looked at each other and giggled. "You go first Danielle." Danielle nodded before wrapping her arms around her fiancé and saying, "I'm getting married!"

Everyone smiled and began to congratulate her and Edward, then they all sat down to listen to what Jazz had to say. "Everyone, I've been married for a few years now," "Three years my love." Alex interrupted. "Yes three happy, joyful years, and I wish the same for you too Danielle. Well, I'm just going to go on and say it." Jazz took a deep breath and everyone could see the anxiousness in her eyes.

"I'm pregnant!"

Smiles appeared on everyone's faces, including Jazz's. Alex put his hand on her abdomen and kissed her, which confused Sam and Danny. He shouldn't act like that "Wait, you didn't know?" Danny and Sam asked Alex. "Well, no I didn't. She didn't tell me, though I could tell she was hinting me a little. She took me into the baby section of the stores, and kept saying 'this room would be perfect for a nursery'. She also kept asking me how I would feel if she was pregnant." Danny chuckled and glanced at Jazz. "Real subtle Jazz." She blushed as everyone laughed. "Hey everyone, do we have seconds." Tucker asked holding his empty plate in the air. Valerie giggled and nodded before handing him another sandwich and a soda.

After lunch, they all walked to the waterfall. At first they just looked at the magnificent beauty, until Tucker decided to push Danny into the water. Then Danny pulled Tucker into the water. after that, Sam pushed Danni in and Jazz pushed Sam in. Valerie, not wanting to be left out of all of the fun, pushed Jazz in, but then was pushed by Alex. Then Alex was pushed by Edward, who jumped in also because he thought it would be fun.

"Ha ha, we haven't done this since we were kids!" Jazz yelled as she got splashed in her face by Danny. "Well, actually, Tucker and I did this last week." They were silent for a while before everyone burst out in laughter. After a while, everyone went with their husband except for Danni since she wasn't married yet. Very soon after that the sun started to set and everyone got out of the lake. The gang then decided to lie down under the stars. Danny began to point out all of the constellations, though none of them were interested since they've heard him talk about the stars thousands of times before. After the fortieth star, they had enough. "Danny, don't you think we should be getting back to the kids." Sam asked half tired, half annoyed.

"Hmm? Oh well it's barely 9, we can still hang out a little longer." Danny said with a hopeful smile. he really did love hanging out with his friends. He didn't get to hang out with them very often since Jazz lived in Wisconsin because of her husband's job at Wisconsin University. She worked as a psychologist not too far from their home. And Danni spent most of her time in the ghost zone, but she occasionally came for a small visit. Now Tucker, Tucker worked as two things; as a scientist at Axiom Labs, and Amity's mayor. Tucker did a lot of the research and built most of the new space equipment at Axiom. Danny worked at Axiom, but occasionally went to Florida to go on outer space missions. After he comes back from his trips, he gives tucker all of the information he gathered while in space. Sam was Amity's park protector. She was in charge of keeping the park clean and beautiful. she planted tons of plants and even taught younger about nature and how to garden. But she also helped her husband and daughter when they fought ghosts. Though, compared to when they were children, ghosts stopped attacking Amity. They respected Danny for saving their world on more than one occasion. Most of the ghosts treated Danny as a fellow ghost and gave up their revenge plans against him, even Skulker was Danny's ally even though he still wishes to hang his 'pelt' on his mantle. Life was pretty good for all of them.

After their goodbyes, Jazz, Sam and Danny, Tucker, and Danni went their separate ways. About an hour later, Danny and Sam got home. They inspected the house and everything seemed normal. All of the kids were in bed, except Lilith, but she left a note saying she was sleeping over at a friend's house. Since they were exhausted, Sam and Danny decided to turn in for the night.

The next morning was almost like any other.

Almost.

Danny was more nervous than the time his sister phased out of his arms and fell on the floor when she was a baby. He thought his dad could probably sense him and find out he was now half ghost. He was currently eating cereal and his hand had already turned intangible five times already. It's a good thing everyone was too busy to notice. But when he heard his spoon hit his bowl and saw his dad turn his attention to him, his nervousness increased and he looked away from his father in fear he might notice his nervousness.

"Danny? Are you okay?"

Danny jolted and looked at his dad. He forced his nervousness down and responded to his dad's question. "Yeah dad, why wouldn't I be?" His dad shrugged and looked at him curiously.

"Well, I don't know. You seem nervous."

Quickly thinking of an excuse, Danny smiled and calmly said, "Oh no dad, I'm fine, it's just that I don't want to be late for school." His dad looked at him confused. "Son, school isn't for another hour." Danny mentally cringed, and then tried to come up with another excuse. At finding one, he quickly, but calmly said, "Yeah, I know dad, but I have to be there early to do an extra credit thing for Mr. Lancer." His dad smiled, and nodded. "Oh, well do you want me to give you a ride?" Danny shook his head and stood up from his seat. "Nah, I think I'll walk, it's good for me anyways, but thanks for the offer dad." He went out the door and let out a relieved sigh. He then went down the steps of his house and headed towards TJ's house. He was planning to tell him about him and Clare. Of course it was going to be difficult to make him understand that Clare wanted Danny instead of him. He soon arrived at TJ's house. Deciding to give his powers more practice, he walked into the alley next to his house and morphed. Then, turning invisible, he floated up to TJ's bedroom window. He phased through the glass and looked around for TJ and found him on his bed asleep. He went in all the way and turned human, then he walked up to TJ's sleeping form. How was he going to wake him up? He glanced at his phone beside his bed and decided to 'play some music'. He turned the volume all the way up and pushed play. The loud music began to play and TJ instinctively sat up from his bed and accidentally punched Danny in his stomach.

"Oww!"

TJ rubbed his eyes and looked around his room until he spotted a shadow on the floor next to his bed. He opened his curtains and saw Danny lying on the floor clutching his stomach. "Dude, what are you doing here at... 6:30 in the morning?" TJ asked groggily. Danny got up slowly and sat down on TJ's computer chair. "I needed to talk to you, but now I kind of want to blast you with my ghost ray. You're just lucky I can't do that yet." TJ looked at him, clearly confused. "Why would you do that? What did I do?" Danny looked at him amusedly. "Well, other than the fact that you punched me in the gut a second ago, absolutely nothing!" TJ blinked and rubbed his eyes and said, "Oh sorry man, I do that when you wake me up before I'm supposed to. That's why my parents don't try to wake me up." Both boys laughed before TJ got up and went to his bathroom, but he left the Door open so he could still talk to Danny.

"So what's up man, what did you wanna talk to me about." TJ asked while he Grabbed his toothbrush and uncapped his toothpaste. "Well... I wanted to talk to you about ... Clare."

"Wahphp abth Clarthphph?"

Danny gave him a confused look before he heard TJ spit and rinse the sink. "I said, what about Clare?" Danny hesitated and was relieved when he heard TJ begin to brush again. "I-I'll just wait till you're done brushing your teeth." Danny heard TJ try to say 'ok'. He tried to think of a way to explain that Clare doesn't like him but that she likes his best friend instead. His best friend who had promised him he didn't like her. Soon, TJ came out completely dressed in his school clothes.

"So what about Clare?"

Danny sighed and diverted his gaze from TJ's. "Well TJ... I don't know how to say this but... I like Clare and she likes me." TJ just smiled and said, "I know. You're not that good of a liar man. I've known you liked her since we first met her. You guys are meant for each other." Danny looked at him, clearly surprised. "TJ, I thought you were like in love with her."

"Dude I'm not. I mean she's really cute, and yeah I wouldn't mind going out with her, but I can tell you love so much more than just her looks." Danny blushed and hugged his best friend, "Thanks man, you don't know how much it means to me for you to say that."

"No problem dude."

Later TJ and Danny met up with Clare. "Ok, as soon as you see her, kiss her." Danny looked at him like he was crazy. TJ rolled his eyes and put his arm around his friend. "Trust me, instead of telling her you two can go out, show her." Danny was think whether or not he should do what TJ was telling him to do when they saw Clare walking away from a girl who had her very agitated.

"Sophia! Please just leave me alone! Do you know how annoying you are!" Clare yelled as she turned to face the blond girl who has been giving her problems since the first day she was at Casper High. "Why can't I be mean to you? What did you do to me?" Sophia yelled, clearly upset. "Fine! Here, you can be mad at me again!" Clare screamed as she lifted the spell from her mind. Sophia's eyes glowed red as the spell was lifted. She blinked a few times, and taking her distraction as a chance to escape, Clare quickly ran away and hid. She didn't realize, however, that Danny was following her and when she looked to make sure Sophia hadn't seen her hide, Danny turned her around and kissed her.

Clare was surprised at first, but when she realized it was Danny, she pulled away and hugged him. "My guess would be you talked to TJ and he was ok with us." Danny nodded and was about to kiss her again when the bell rang and they had to head in.

Danny, TJ, and Clare all had the same home room. They were whispering to each other about going to TJ's to watch some movies, when Danny's arm accidentally went intangible and he fell off of his chair.

"Mr. Fenton! Even if this is just home room, that doesn't mean you can take a nap in my class!" Mr. Lancer yelled at Danny, extremely annoyed that his students were falling asleep in his class.

"Y-Yes Mr. Lancer." Danny stuttered out, relieve that Mr. Lancer just thought he was sleeping. Clare looked around and checked everyone's minds to make sure no one suspected anything.

The rest of the day went on as usual and once lunch came one thing was on all three teens' minds, something Clare didn't hesitate to voice.

"We have to teach you to control your powers."

Done! Gosh, I didn't think I would ever finish this chapter, with all of the holidays going on and all. Well, once again I hope you comment because I would love to hear your thoughts. Danny's in for a real workout in the next chapter. Ok well, bye! And I hope you all have a safe and epic New Year!